2011-2020

  • Nicholas Triandafyllidis – Oi aisthimaties AKA The Sentimentalists (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseCrimeGreeceNicholas Triandafyllidis

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    Synopsis
    An aged, prosperous and above any suspicion, bourgeois by the nickname ‘The Master’, lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter who he has kept well protected from the mischief of the outside world. Behind the façade of the vigorous art lover, however, he prospers by illegally trading antiquities in the black market and a loan sharking. The ‘Master’ has two henchmen to do his ‘dirty work’, Hermes and John. Both will commit a fatal mistake: while Hermes falls for the daughter of his ‘Master’, John is obsessed with a prostitute. Both will pay a heavy price for being ‘sentimentalists’…
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  • Hito Steyerl – Liquidity Inc. (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentaryGermanyHito SteyerlVideo Art

    Hito Steyerl is a Berlin-based artist and writer who’s new work, Liquidity Inc., is presented here. Liquidity Inc., which exhibited at the London Institute of Contemporary Art in April 2014, takes up liquidity as a concept in all of its physical, metaphorical, bodily, spiritual, meteorological and financial forms. In the main the film follows Jacob Wood a financial worker fired during the recent major economic crisis who now has a career in mixed martial arts.Read More »

  • Sebastián Bednarik & Andrés Varela – Maracaná (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentarySebastián Bednarik and Andrés VarelaUruguay

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    Synopsis: On July 16th, 1950, in Maracana Stadium, eleven men, eleven uruguayans, won against all possible predictions the FIFA World Cup final against the host country, Brazil. This accomplishment would shape the social and political life of both countries forever.Read More »

  • J.P. Sniadecki – The Iron Ministry (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJ.P. SniadeckiUSA

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    Filmed over three years on China’s railways, THE IRON MINISTRY traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, and language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. THE IRON MINISTRY immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.Read More »

  • Kornél Mundruczó – Fehér Isten AKA White God (2014)

    2011-2020DramaHungaryKornél Mundruczó

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    The film follows the mixed-breed dog Hagen who moves, along with his guardian Lili, in with Lili’s father. Unwilling to pay a harsh “mongrel” fine imposed by the government, Lili’s father abandons him. Determined to find Lili again, Hagen soon attracts a large pack of half-breed followers who start a seemingly organised uprising against their human oppressors.Read More »

  • Lance Bangs – Breadcrumb Trail (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentaryLance BangsMusicalUSA

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    Breadcrumb Trail is a 90-minute documentary about Slint and their classic 1991 album Spiderland. It’s directed by Lance Bangs and includes interviews with the band, plus James Murphy, Steve Albini, David Yow, Ian MacKaye, Matt Sweeney, and others.Read More »

  • Xavier Dolan – Tom à la Ferme AKA Tom at the Farm (2013) (HD)

    2011-2020CanadaDramaThrillerXavier Dolan

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    A grieving man meets his lover’s family, who were not aware of their son’s sexual orientation.

    “What you don’t know WILL hurt you.”. Tom, a young advertising copywriter, travels to the country for a funeral. There, he’s shocked to find out no one knows who he is, nor who he was to the deceased, whose brother soon sets the rules of a twisted game. In order to protect the family’s name and grieving mother, Tom now has to play the peacekeeper in a household whose obscure past bodes even greater darkness for his “trip” to the farm. Long ways, long lies… Set in Quebec’s rural panorama, this psychological thriller centres on the ever-growing gap between city and country and the oppositive nature of men who live there. Stockholm syndrome, deception, grief and secretive savageries pervade this brief and brutal pilgrimage through the warped and ugly truthRead More »

  • Juri Rechinsky – Sickfuckpeople (2013)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJuri RechinskyUkraine

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    A documentary triptych about a group of homeless kids, who have survived their drug-addicted childhood, grew up and start to live an adult life. It’s a story about a boy facing the surreal, degenerated society of his native village full of hate and sadistic anger while searching for his mother. It’s a story about a pregnant girl who wants to give birth to her child whose childhood probably will be even worse then hers. But her own sisters are forcing her to make an abortion.Read More »

  • Reza Dormishian – Boghz AKA Hatred (2012)

    2011-2020DramaIranReza Dormishian

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    Jaleh and Hamid are two youngsters from the third generation of Iranian immigrants in Turkey. Their families came here to have a peaceful life. We see two parallel narrations from two different periods of the young characters’ lives. One narration is about their first days of meeting and happiness. The other is about the eight crucial hours when they commit a robbery so they can use the money to start a happy life somewhere else. However, as often happens in such cases, they are led in a different direction.Read More »

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